sábado, 25 de febrero de 2012

Management of Suspected Bacterial Meningitis

This protocol is for doctors in Emergency Medicine, General Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Critical Care and Anaesthetics.
The basis of the management plan outlined is explained in the Journal of Infection 2003;46:75-77 (R.S. Heyderman, H.P. Lambert, I O'Sullivan, J.M. Stuart, B.L. Taylor, R.A Wall, on behalf of the British Infection Society).
The updated algorithm was also featured in the Journal of Infection 2005;50:373-374 (R.S. Heyderman on behalf of the British Infection Society)